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Honesty Best Policy When Appraising Employee Performance
The first and most important ingredient in managing performance is honesty. In order for a performance appraisal to have any benefit at all, managers and employees must be honest with each other and the process. Managers must candidly address not only the perceived...
4 Reasons Why Your DISC Style Might Bias Performance Reviews
Performance reviews, one of the most disliked managerial responsibilities, are difficult enough to do without personal bias getting in the way. The DISC behavioral profile is an excellent tool to help managers understand how their personal preferences might cloud...
Understanding DISC in the Workplace
Every day while driving we are faced with a decision – to hit the gas or step on the brake when the green light turns to yellow. Likewise each April we are required to file our tax returns. And every April 15 hundreds of thousands of people rush to the post office...
Benefits of Using Pre-employment Testing
If you’ve ever hired someone who turned out to be a poor fit for the job, you know there is more to choosing an employee than meets the eye. Resumes can’t always be trusted to tell the whole story, and a good interview doesn’t indicate if the candidate can really do...
What Is The Worst Way to Evaluate Manager Competence?
"What is different about being a Manager?" starts out a blog I read regularly. In it Tom Foster, the author, asks: "What is different about being a manager [than a supervisor]?" This is an ongoing and growing conversation I have with senior managers and business...
Answers to More 5 FAQs about Pre Employment Testing
As the popularity of pre employment testing increases, so does the number of frequently asked questions. Below are five of the most common questions. Won't some people be offended by being asked to complete a test?Certainly, but if some people are offended by a...
Why Mothers Teach Lousy Sales Skills
Mothers are pretty incredible people. Beginning with conception through adulthood, they care for us, feed us, mentor us, sacrifice for us, protect us and … you get the point. But the one thing most mothers don’t do well is teach top performing sales skills. In fact,...
Why Use Pre-Employment Testing
More and more companies, including small businesses and non-profits, are starting to use pre-employment testing to screen out high risk applicants and select the right employees. The most popular employee tests are skill, personality and aptitude. These tests are used...
New White Paper: 3 Steps to Screen Faster, Hire Smarter
Your business lives or dies on your ability to find, hire and keep qualified, competent and engaged employees. But that job is getting harder, particularly on the recruiting side, according to a recent survey. While most HR professionals say that finding good job...
The ABC’s of DISC – What Energizes and De-Energizes Employees
I've recently published several posts about how DISC influences individual preferences toward customer service, learning, and even delivering performance reviews. While I received several comments and emails about the content in the articles, a majority of readers...
